San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-01-15
The WiFE'S SECRET.

was, now unaJ ne called May Brooke
wife!
He smiled when he saw how carefully
she locked up the little desk. Then she
kissed him and said Good morning"
She was going to buy some of the things
she thought it time to prepare for TAX
ing to India.
For many long sad weeks Captain
Ruthven remembered his wife's face as
he saw it when she gaily bade him
Good morning."
He continued to read his newspaper
for some time after she had gone, and
then he remembered another and most
important letter that he had forgotten
to mention to his wife.
Her desk was locked; but he produced
his own bunch of keys, and found that
one of them opened it. He took some
paper, wrote his letter, and directed it,
but could not find any wax with which
to seal the envelope. Another of Cap
tain Ruthven's peculiaritieS was his
want of faith in adhesive envelopes
every letter he wrote must be sealed;
but in this case it seemed as though the
wax were not forthcoming. He turned
over one paper after another hurriedly,
for he could not bear delay, and in so
doing his eyes fell upon half-sheet of
paper covered with his wife's handwrit-
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had never cared for him.
He groaned aloud as these thoughts
ran through his mind. He would far
rather have seen her dead at his feet
than have to live and scorn her. She
was dead to him. Never should she de-
ceive him with her sweet words and
smiles AGAIN. BETTER the loneliness that
Swallowed his life than this false love.
He could 90 back to India, and live
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